Types of Surveys

A brief introduction to surveys and their layout. Surveys consist of main
three types, single page surveys, multi page surveys and logical surveys as
well as quickpolls.

The diagram below shows the relationship between pages, groups, questions
and options in DWsurvey. Some surveys can span across multiple pages. On a
page questions can be brought together into groups and for a multiple choice
question, the possible answers are called options.

Single Page Surveys

These surveys are displayed all on one screen with a submit button (at the
bottom in the default template).

The questions on these surveys can be grouped together and the questions
themselves can have options (for example in multiple choice questions you
can have a number of possible responses that you define, these are called
options).

Survey » Groups » Questions » Groups

Multi
Page Surveys

These surveys work almost in an identical way to single page surveys except
they can span across multiple pages and have a progress bar showing the particpant
how far through the survey process they are.

The questions on these surveys are assigned a page, the questions on a page
can also be grouped together and the questions themselves can have options
(for example in multiple choice questions you can have a number of possible
responses that you define, these are called options).

Survey » Pages » Groups » Questions » Groups

Logical Surveys

These surveys always start with a single question. Based on the answer to
this question to user is then redirected to another question and then another
and so on. For example if you have a multiple choice question with two possible
answers, if the user selects option 1 they might go to question 2 and if they
select option 2 they might go to question 3. Questions 2 and 3 might then
go to the end of the survey, but they might work in just the same way as question
1 did.

Pages and groups are not used in logical surveys as each question is on it's
own page. The questions themselves can have options (for example in multiple
choice questions you can have a number of possible responses that you define,
these are called options).

Survey » Pages » Groups » Questions » Groups

Embedded Surveys

These surveys can be created from any type of existing survey on the system. They are generated through the Link Generator. You can display your surveys embedded on any page on your website using a small bit of code that the Link Generator gives you.

Quickpolls

There is a fourth type of survey which we haven't yet mentioned as they don't
follow all of the principles that the other types do. These are polls. A poll
is a single multiple choice question that allows you to display instant results.

Quickpolls are essentially single page surveys, they are just limited to
one question and only certain question types (multiple choice, single answer
and multiple choice, multiple answer).